Find a TenderPast planning notice
Published 5 May 2023, 14:17 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Digital Staff Passport Framework

Official notice

Authority: NHS England (Central government)

Framework agreementServices
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£50,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 9 Jun 2023from the planned procurement notice
Notice summaryFrom the published notice

NHS England has been working to enable staff movements through the use of digital staff passports. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic the Covid Digital Staff Passport has been developed as an interim solution. Additional information: Further to this PIN notice NHSE wishes undertake a tender process to initiate a multi-supplier framework agreement, so that potential authorities can undertake call-offs as and when required in line with framework Terms and conditions.<br/>The first Invitations to Tender for this new service line will include the following:<br/>Designing and developing digital staff passport and onboarding services for different staff groups across the health and care sectors.<br/>Please note that authority may decide to shorten the timescales for the ITT (Invitation to Tender) stage as we have published the PIN.

What is being bought

Published requirement description

NHS England has been working to enable staff movements through the use of digital staff passports. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic the Covid Digital Staff Passport has been developed as an interim solution. NHS England now wishes to initiate a new framework for Digital staff passports that will be available for the health, care and other sectors.

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Digital Staff Passport Framework - The need for the NHS to have a flexible and…Planned

Digital Staff Passport Framework - The need for the NHS to have a flexible and responsive workforce has been set out in both the NHS Long Term Plan and the NHS People Plan.<br/><br/>The ambition now, as set out by the NHS National Director for People and National Director of Transformation, is to make digital staff passports available to substantially more staff servicing different types of staff movements as soon as practicable.<br/><br/>To support this ambition, NHS England want to better understand what the providers of digital passport technologies are able to offer and establish a new framework service line for digital staff passport providers under the Health System Support Framework (HSSF) to ensure a broad and open market is created. Additional information: Further to this PIN notice NHSE wishes undertake a tender process to initiate a multi-supplier framework agreement, so that potential authorities can undertake call-offs as and when required in line with framework Terms and conditions.<br/>The first Invitations to Tender for this new service line will include the following:<br/>Designing and developing digital staff passport and onboarding services for different staff groups across the health and care sectors.<br/>Please note that authority may decide to shorten the timescales for the ITT (Invitation to Tender) stage as we have published the PIN. So, we would encourage you to prepare early if you are planning to bid for this opportunity. <br/>To access the tender management portal, please see the tender portal link and the helpdesk details:<br/>health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗<br/>Helpdesk:<br/>Phone: 0800 9956035<br/>E-mail: [email protected]

Delivery: UK

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
What this means for your bid
  • “Digital Staff Passport Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
5 May 2023, 14:17 BST
Last source update
5 May 2023, 14:17 BST
Authority reference
Tender portal ref: C168580
FTS notice number
2023/S 000-012977
Classification (CPV)
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03c6ca Find a Tender

Publisher note: NHS E will be hosting an early Market engagement event via webinar (MS Teams) on Friday 19th May from 2pm – 3pm.<br/>This event will be limited to two persons per Supplier, to manage virtual platform capacity. Please register your attendance at this event via [email protected]<br/>Your email title should reference - Digital Staff Passports Webinar<br/>Please confirm (a) Company Name (b) Name of Attendee/s (c) Job/Position title. A formal MS Teams invite will follow.<br/>NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the e-tendering portal via the link given below. Project reference number - C168580<br/>https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome<br/><br/>If you need assistance to access tendering portal, please contact the help desk:<br/><br/>Phone: 0800 9956035<br/>E-mail: [email protected]

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: portal not identified

Tender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗

Appointment period ends
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Timeline

5 May 2023 → 9 Jun 2023 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published
    5 May 2023, 14:17 BST
  2. Tender notice expected
    9 Jun 2023, 00:00 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

NHS England

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentNational or federal agency/officeHealth 1st Floor, Quarry House, Quarry Hill, Leeds, Yorkshire & Humber, LS2 7UEContact name, email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.